Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis
Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE Jazyk angličtina Země Velká Británie, Anglie Médium electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články, práce podpořená grantem
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29167467
PubMed Central
PMC5700086
DOI
10.1038/s41467-017-01820-w
PII: 10.1038/s41467-017-01820-w
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This study seeks to estimate the carbon implications of recent changes in China's economic development patterns and role in global trade in the post-financial-crisis era. We utilised the latest socioeconomic datasets to compile China's 2012 multiregional input-output (MRIO) table. Environmentally extended input-output analysis and structural decomposition analysis (SDA) were applied to investigate the driving forces behind changes in CO2 emissions embodied in China's domestic and foreign trade from 2007 to 2012. Here we show that emission flow patterns have changed greatly in both domestic and foreign trade since the financial crisis. Some economically less developed regions, such as Southwest China, have shifted from being a net emission exporter to being a net emission importer. In terms of foreign trade, emissions embodied in China's exports declined from 2007 to 2012 mainly due to changes in production structure and efficiency gains, while developing countries became the major destination of China's export emissions.
Department of Environmental Studies Masaryk University Brno 602 00 Czech Republic
Department of Geographical Sciences University of Maryland College Park MD 20742 USA
School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK
School of Management and Economics Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing 100081 China
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